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The Pixel is 32 & 128, and +$100 for the 128GB option. A MicroSD card does not cost $100, and offers far more space.
by Zikes 10y ago
The Pixel is 32 & 128, and +$100 for the 128GB option. A MicroSD card does not cost $100, and offers far more space.
- Thaxll 10y agoWhat do you need the space for?
- mgkimsal 10y agopictures? music? not everyone wants to pay hundreds of dollars to host stuff someplace else, wait for it to sync, run the risk of being lost/destroyed, and paying even more if/when data caps are broken (or paying even more for 'unlimited' data).
- dspillett 10y agoPhotos, videos, maps, and other data, all accessible while not online as in some places being reliably online with a fast enough link is expensive or completely impossible. You could carry a laptop to archive the data off to I suppose, but that makes the arrangement a lot less conveniently portable if you didn't already have to cart that with you for other reasons.
- AdmiralAsshat 10y agoI have over 1 TB of music, and on my current HTC One M9, I keep a 128GB SD card in it, onto which I've thrown about 90 gigs of my most listened to music. It's still not quite enough for everything I'd like to have in there, but I just bought a 200 GB card that was on sale yesterday, so that should help. Photos would be another reason. Particularly since Google has been ranting about how high quality their camera is.
- blisterpeanuts 10y agoI'd love to have my 60-70 gigs of music on board my phone and available at all times, not just when I have good cell coverage or wifi. Also, when I visit Canada, data is suddenly super expensive. What's more, I'd like to have all my GPS maps available offline. It's very difficult situation when I've traveled to some out of the way place where I have no reception, and can't load any maps to navigate me home.
- x0x0 10y agoKeep in mind that the OS eats, IIRC, 10g-ish of that supposed 32. And you'd better keep another couple g free for OTA updates. So you're now down to more like 20g of useable space. On a phone that shoots hd video. Me personally: a 4g spotify cache so I don't burn through data, cached maps, lots of pics and video, and I'm constantly dealing with out of space warnings.
- post_break 10y agoMicroSD card is also extremely slow compared to phone memory. I would have paid $100 to get my Samsung phone with 128gb if they offered it vs the 128gb sd card I have.
- blisterpeanuts 10y agoAren't modern type 10 MicroSD cards plenty fast enough to serve up video? How much faster do they need to be, and what applications would require it? I thought RAM (typically 2 or 4 gigs these days on most phones) is where the fast computation takes place, whereas the non volatile memory merely emulates disk storage.
- post_break 10y agoThey are worlds slower than phone memory. It's like usb stick vs Sata 3 SSD.